Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-12-31

EduhluR tyupnHy WIN d cdpitai VI tAoiooo.
The salary OF the Brsinerd CHIEF Oh police
has BEEN raised to IA per month, and that OF
the patroimen TO S6l
John Watkins, a resident Of Cedar City,
near Austin, since 1856, dropped dead on his
way TO church Sunday.
The Saltwater Natural Gas and o. com.
psny has &C mitted Senator sabin and d. Y.
Jersey as stockholders.
The dynamos and engines OF the Rochester
electric Il ht plant are In place ard will be
started on Christmas.
The Ma ionsl Iron works have turned out
this year 5000 worth Of works; $4,000
beirg for in erests ia other cities.
squatters are rushing 10 the government
land recently opened In Cass county, and fully
200 fanitiea have taken claims.
Three of the boys arrested for disturbing
MoJ, Fishblatt's Gospel army IA ttiEgs at
E@iib4ult were bound over 70 the grand iary
and one discharged.
Il. Hallett, the postmaster ut h -ainerd, has
received and shipped s32 saddles of veni on
TO this date, with more to come 10 from the
November Killing.
Austin puzzle schools employ 145 teachers,
OF which 80 are males and il2 females. Of
this number 81 hold lrst grade certificates
and So second grade.
A young lad from Mankate, hardly out OF
knee breeches, was detained at Red Wiog,
having left his home with the !nteution Il
joining the Fun in a Boarding school"
uou De.
The Warren Manufacturing eoupany's ele-
vator, with -, 600 bushels Of wheat, was de-
s'royed by fire Tuesday evening. The wheat
was insured for SO 000.
The supreme COURT OF Minnesota has decided
that, under the insolvent law, an assignment
by two partners INCLUDE the separate rs well
as the partnership property.
The members OF the Second B Gpt.st church
OF Du u.b have presented their organist, Miss
Shaw, with q handsome solid silver cup and
saucer and u solid gold thimb'e.
b. Hesse and j. E Loucks, saloonkeepers
or South st. Paul, were arraignec Tutsda,
before Justice Hayes, the former upon five
charges and the latter four charges, for viola
ton OF the liquor laws last SUNDAY, the com.
p~lainant being W. Z. Bennett, OF Has Tags.
A freight train ran into Conductor Boards
ley's train at Laketield early Tuesday morn.
ing during a binding spOwstorm. engineer
Bucklin, OF the freight, had both legs cut IF
and Gled. Engineer Searles, OF the other
train, WAS severely cut, but not fatally IL
Ired.
.J0hn Nulcahav NJ NNacapa an hral apna 4, ar
the Winona IL st. Peter, was killed Sunday
morning at Kasota while stsking ia a car.
The stake slipped and Mulcahey was caught
between the tender aud car, breaking hts back
and two ribs. He had been married only
about four months.
Charles Peterson, working In Henry
Shaner's lumber camp, north OF Coll river,
was seriously If not fatally 4, jared Tuesday
by a sled loaded with logs running over him.
Peterson's home is at Valley City, d. T.
The BODY of a man was washed ashore at
Minnesota point Monday afternoon, aud II is
supposed 10 be that Of ore of two mall csrrl-
ers who had decsmpfd with a quantity OF &C.
cumulated mail matter from Two Harbogs a
few days ago.
The R4v. j. B. Halton, for a long time pas-
tor Of the Cnurch OF the Guardian Angels, in
Hastings, died In Preston, Fillmore county,
OF the 9Th inst. aged forty-fve years He
had been in poor health Tor a number o
years, and resigned his charge at Hastings for
that reason. He WAS born 10 County Cayen,
Ireland, ordained IN ct. Pau, and located IN
Hastings IN 1868 remaining until 1888. He
has a brother in Chicago, and another a priest
IN 0uray, Colorado. The remains will b
buried In Chicago.
81. Paul special, Dec. 10: The 73O saloons
OF ST. Paul are all running on licenses for
which they paid $50 per annum Seven hun
dred Of these run out January /, when they
must he renewed under the new high lice nse
law st 81 900. However, not an application
has yet been made for 4 license Tor 1883. and
II Is necessary under the law that all appl:cs-
ti0us must be In the hands OF the council com
mittee on nnisances two weeks before granted
or rejected. 1t is less han two weeks t.
January i. The saloons OF St. Paul viii
therefore open the new year Ia a strange pre-
dlcament. OIly thirty OF them will have q
right to sell any kind OF beverage, mall,
vinous or spurious, and II any OF the oshecs
attempt to keep their doors open after the
opening Of the new year they are liable TO a
h'avy fne, and viii forfeit tie right to sell
liquor for q year.
The experiment Of the Knights OF Labor
With a cooperative farm, known as the Crow
Wing county scheme. IA now a pronounced
failure. The enterprise was comm 'uced under
aatter!ng prospects on " large ts4ct of land
situated In the south part Of this county,
upon which there was plenty Of timber, b tn
pine and oak. A saw mill was put up, which
WAS expected to produce lumber for large
buildings, but none of the pre- jects seemed to
materialize, and after two years of tho expert
ment leading members of the colony have
permanently disagreed, and all but one de-
parted. The sheriff a few days ago sold the
mill under foreclosure. n. 8. Strauss who has
lived with the colony editing the paper, the
Journal, says the trouble arose from disagree
ments Of the managers, Mr.. Rankin and Mr..
Young. 1t is claimed that Mr.. Rankin has
not accounted for moneys collected but this
Is as strongly denied. At present everybody
has left the farm but Mr.. Z ,nkln.
The public at Wsseca has been co asiderably
excited during the past week In regard to the